Re: Connecting to WPA & WPA2 enterprise Wi-Fi

Originally Posted by wildmanne39

I have to +1 this:

it is a nightmare for network manager.

Plus all those signals are about the same, bad, signal strength, so there isn't clear AP to connect with will always be in question by the NIC firmware. It will likely require futzing with some wifi NIC settings that we generally don't need to futz with to get any connection stable.

If I were staying at this hotel, I'd talk to the general manager about this poor design. I'd explain that each AP using the same channel was like his wife talking to him about multiple different topics, from every direction, all the same-channel APs and he wouldn't know which to actually listen to.

He probably doesn't know any better (he shouldn't need to know) and the company that put this in must have left it misconfigured. If they used a central wifi management system, the APs would self-correct for channel diversity using the best options possible automatically. Even the cheapest solutions from Ubiquiti do this.

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This is why I always travel with a portable wifi travel router and use the plugged in ethernet port in the room. My AP, my security and I'm behind a router I control. I have had to sit in a lobby to do work a few times because the wifi sucked and there wasn't any wired connection in the room. I always try to look overly relaxed - like a bum when I do this. Want to make the hotel feel the pain (of some guy in a bathrob and slippers hanging out in the lobby) that I'm feeling too.
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